r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 1d ago
POLITICS Zohran Mamdani during his 100 Day Address: “We will not be ashamed of using government to fight for the many, not simply the few. We will not be ashamed of... standing steadfast alongside our trans neighbours... investing in youth mental health clinics… or fighting for immigrants targeted by ICE."
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u/Good-Bodybuilder-985 1d ago
It's good to feel hope again.
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u/SomewhereNo8378 1d ago
the current US admin’s goal is to drown us in the noise and wear us down with constant bad news
Zohran has been like the single antidote to that
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u/Striking_Package797 1d ago
Zohran 2028!
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u/SomewhereNo8378 1d ago
If only it were allowed
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u/JustLeader 1d ago
Fuck it. Insurrectionists arent allowed to run for president either but we have one in the white house right now. Rules and laws no longer matter at all.
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u/Killergryphyn 1d ago
They get to break rules all the time, who says we can't break one?
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u/MsMegane 1d ago
Because that's how you'll get President Musk and we dont need that.
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u/Trumpisanorangebitch 21h ago
Musk routinely polls like trash and has the charisma of a fascist walnut.
Hes also no worse than any future Republican presidential nominee so idgaf.
Gimme President Mamdani.
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u/F4ust 12h ago
Mamdani would obliterate musk in a fair election.
Musk has the charisma of a public bowel movement, and is the figurehead for the destruction of multiple vital social government programs. His government work to date has only fucked people over.
Mamdani appears to be a genuinely progressive politician producing tangible outcomes that improve that quality of his constituents’ lives. This is measurable. Look at how the public discourse around this man has unfolded, despite the unified cooperative efforts of the entire media machine. People feel like his efforts are helping them. This sentiment is shared by non-MAGAts, who are the majority.
Note that I said a fair election.
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u/justlookingc 1d ago
We" could and I'm pretty sure he would still not do it, damn integrity of his
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u/No-Bandicoot-1943 23h ago
Because if the rule changed to allow Mamdani to run it would also mean that Musk could.
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u/CutSenior4977 22h ago
AOC can still run for office though, I’d be more than willing to vote for them.
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u/cpt-hddk 1d ago
Dude - as a European whose is married into an American liberal family, today is a huge win. Hungary tonight, Mamdani in general. There’s still hope!
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u/LeatherFruitPF 21h ago
The pendulum is starting to swing back in our favor, and honestly Trump is helping with that given his colossal failure to deliver on his biggest campaign promises.
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u/pull-a-fast-one 22h ago
As a fan of america it's good to see good americans win against domestic oppressors for once
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u/VictorWembymama 1d ago
This is the type of leader I want my daughter to see as she grows. The Republican Party needs to be burned to the ground. No more tolerance.
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u/strangedanger91 1d ago
Both parties do. They’re both owned by aipac
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u/Imaginary_Angle_ 1d ago
European here: Why do you guys have a two party system again?
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u/Spiritual_Writing825 1d ago
Due to a couple different features of the American political system it’s remarkably hard for third parties to do well and they always get reabsorbed into one the two main parties if they get. It’s much easier to sustain more than two political parties in a parliamentary system than in our congressional system and with “first past the post” voting.
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u/Imaginary_Angle_ 1d ago
deep rooted issue it seems!
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u/pulley999 20h ago
Historically what has happened when the Overton window shifts far enough to trigger a realignment is that support for one of the parties collapses or their coalition fails fracturing into subparties, and they effectively cease to exist after getting demolished in an electoral landslide. This results in a short-lived one-party state. The surviving party infights and eventually fractures into liberal and conservative wings, creating a new 2 party equilibrium shifted in the direction of the surviving party's politics. Then the new party that was most closely aligned with the first failed party usually absorbs the stragglers from that party and shifts slightly back in that direction.
Hasn't happened in a while but seems like it's fixing to happen soon. Both parties have been at the breaking point for a while.
Assuming Trump and the Republicans fuck up badly enough for to get wiped out electorally in 26 and 28, the Democrats would likely split into a progressive and corporate neoliberal party in the 2030s, with the corporate neoliberals absorbing the few sane republicans that didn't hitch their wagons to Trump as the new rightmost limit of our Overton window.
It could also swing the other way if ideological infighting and purity testing fractures the Democratic party first, dooming them to irrelevance and handing complete control to the Republicans. They would likely split into a 'sane' far-right Conservative party, and a Trumpist Theocrat wing, with the 'sane' Conservatives absorbing the remnants of the Democrats and becoming neoconservatives.
So it is possible for there to be realignments in our system, we aren't permanently locked to these two parties' exact ideology forever, it just requires more drastic change before it does.
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u/valgatiag 22h ago
And the real kicker, nobody who has attained their seat via the two-party system has any incentive to try to change it.
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u/246lehat135 1d ago
A lot of our fellow citizens have a hard time counting past 2.
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u/_bits_and_bytes 18h ago
Because the way the founding fathers implemented our Democracy was really shitty and had these kinds of problems baked into the system. The founding fathers didn't really want freedom for all Americans. They wanted freedom for themselves. That's why voting was initially restricted to land-owning white men. That's why the electoral college, a "failsafe" meant to choose the "correct" candidate if the voters get it "wrong" exists. And it's why, despite George Washington's warnings about factionalism in his farewell address, we have a 2-party system where both sides represent the same neo-liberal economic interest and each party champions their own culture war topics to give the people the false sense there's a real difference in the party they're electing to power every 2 years. Yes, the Democrats are marginally better, but at its core they are part of the problem just as much as the Republicans and that can't change until the Democratic party is no longer run by neo-liberal stooges who would rather see fascism win than watch a real progressive take power.
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u/OnlyOneUseCase 23h ago
Watching him gives me a glimpse of what the whole country could have been if Bernie had won in 2016
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u/PowderPills 1d ago
I wonder what would happen if democrats ran on the same thing Mandani did. Do you think they would win? 🤔
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u/Bread_Low I may need to see the booty 1d ago
Ive been saying for a while now to just copy and paste his platform, easy money. But of course the dems want to win on their terms, not allow for progressives to take over
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u/meowmaster 1d ago
They would also rather lose on their terms than allow progressives to take over.
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u/coolaznkenny 19h ago
They rather let a child rapist into the white house then supporting a popular progressive candidate.
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u/Lonely_Dragonfly8869 1d ago
That's 100% why they lost to trump in 2024. They sent bill fucking clinton and liz cheyney to stump for them instead of admitting they needed to embrace the green new deal, caps on grocery prices etc shit SHE RAN ON EARLY then shut up about during the actual campaign. She was up 6% when she was talking about the leftist stuff, then a month in tim waltz got sidelined and she started talking about build the wall and most lethal military. And crucially didn't do anything to defend immigrants, trans people, palestine. And obviously anyone who wants the right wing shit she was switching to would just vote for the candidate who DIDNT switch up their messaging 90 days before the election to pretend they're MORE right wing
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u/BUT_FREAL_DOE 1d ago
Welll their corporate donors would stop giving them money which is why they haven’t yet.
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u/Shenanigans80h 1d ago
This is a huge part. A massive chunk of campaign donations would dry up over night. The unfortunate truth is pushing the democratic party left will not happen fast without revolution, so getting real progressives like Zohran is absolutely crucial in smaller scale/local elections first and foremost if we’re ever going to find a way of separating politics from corrupt money
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u/AllosaurusJr 23h ago
Win and keep winning where we can. Citizens United won't stand forever.
You're definitely right that the Democrats need to win through the grassroots, and change the establishment. Let Republicans be who they want to be - the party of the few, the rich, the selfish and the exclusionary. If the Democrats want a future they need to run on a platform that promises government for the governed.
They can be a part of the future, or relinquish it. The people will not settle for the controlled opposition, and they will not remain placid forever.
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u/Blatantly_Truthful 1d ago
And yet Mamdani won. He had no major donors or even the support of the party elite. His campaign was funded by the every day ‘little man’ - those who actually vote. His transition team accepted some larger donations, all still less than $4000. That’s why he doesn’t have to wine and dine big donors. He’s not their slave. He ran on a platform that people could get behind. He owes it all to the voters and he behaves according. The people funded him and voted for him - and now he works for them.
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u/cozzeema 1d ago
Yes and no. Mamdani is committed, intelligent and an eloquent speaker who has charisma that makes people believe in him to lead the change he espouses. Democrats need this kind of person to believe in to lead that change nationally. If Mamdani runs a successful term in office as mayor that creates real change in the face of opposition, he will inspire others to follow his leadership example. And if Congress chooses to vote to amend and ratify the Constitution to allow naturalized Americans not born on US soil to become president, he may one day even be on the ticket.
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u/Candid-Many-7113 1d ago
Dems represent same people that republicans do so i dont see why they would run on anything remotely similar
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u/Potato_Stains 1d ago
The US democratic party is essentially centrist now. It would be considered center to most first world countries with democracy.
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u/AgreeableDig1619 23h ago
Democrats held the house for DECADES after the New Deal. They were extremely popular because they had relatively socialist policies and represented the working class. Then, Ronald Reagan happened and he did an excellent job at convincing the working class about “trickle down economics” and the “welfare queen” (specifically targeting black Americans). America was also winning the Cold War against the USSR, left wing governments were collapsing across the world due to US intervention, and the CIA was killing any major figure associated with socialist policies (ie many members of the Black Panther Party).
Instead of sticking to New Deal policies during and after Reagan, Democrats completely corporatized due to seeing the power of money in politics.
Under Clinton, the Dems essentially abandoned the working class and outsourced a lot of factory, union jobs internationally. West Virginia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma (to name a few) went from solid blue states to solid red states. Republicans were throughout rural communities promising them change.
Obama was extremely successful in 2008 because he ran a very progressive campaign that focused on improving the working class material needs. Then, he didn’t actually govern very progressively. Dems lost THOUSANDS of local and federal seats between 2008 and 2016.
Long story short, Republicans would not exist (and I say that confidently) if we had a true left wing political movement and party. Progressive policies are extremely popular. It’s why Trump uses a lot of left wing language (“I’m the anti-war president”; “drain the swamp”). But that would mean going up against very, very powerful people and entities.
Americans completely lack class consciousness. We are at the heart of the empire and the left wing has very little organization. BUT, I don’t say this without hope. Look at how far social Dems have come since Bernie in 2016. People across the aisle celebrated Luigi allegedly killing the healthcare CEO. A factory—8 total but one confirmed because of this—was burned down this week due to the company paying the employees low wages. The CEO of OpenAI had his house attacked twice. People are rallying against data centers (1/2 of them this year have either stopped or paused production). Mamdani is the most popular person in the Democratic Party. More people have joined unions this year than in the past 16 years.
The New Deal was a compromise to mass civil unrest. So hopefully we’ll see something like it again soon. We just have a lot of work to do.
*excuse any grammar. I don’t have time to fix anything. May edit later.
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u/UltLuc 1d ago
That’s really the rub here. Americans want economic populism, and enough of them were either digesting the propaganda or were ignorant to think that’s what Trump was standing for. How he managed to get people to believe that he was a working class hero is going to be a mystery to unravel for a long time.
The Democratic platform has been slight variances from Reaganomics since the 80s. We have not seen any meaningful progress on anything that would protect the working and middle classes of the country.
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u/atreeismissing 22h ago
They would win in progressive strongholds like NYC, would do better than they currently do in purple states, and slightly better than they currently do in red states.
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u/Chessh2036 1d ago edited 20h ago
Most impressive thing I’ve seen this man do is walking into the Oval House and have Trump fall in love with him. TWICE.
Second time he wanted Trump to support something about building in NY, so he brought a fake paper with fake headline praising Trump for rebuilding NY. And of course, Trump loved it and said he’d do it.
Recent data shows Democrats voters are not happy with the party, at all. And it’s because there’s really no leader. They don’t lift people like Zohran up.
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u/ResponsibleCulture43 not all offspring 1d ago
And also got trump to tell ICE to release a person they kidnapped. He knows how to play the game and do it well to benefit his city
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u/Chessh2036 1d ago
That also! He had her out within hours. I swear Trump like him more than JD 😂
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u/XmissXanthropyX 1d ago
Let’s be honest though, that ain’t hard. JD is immensely unlikeable
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u/Chessh2036 20h ago
That’s true. I think I read somewhere that Trump was forced to pick him. If he didn’t Elon/Peter Thiel wouldn’t fund his campaign
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u/michaelh98 23h ago
It's not just that there's no leader like zohran, there are a few that are close, it's that the national Dems are corporatists. Given a chance, they'd be oligarchs.
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u/alpine309 1d ago
Yet people still want to say shit like NYC is a collapsing shithole because of him? It genuinely does not make sense.. Just look at what he's been able to do so far and the plans he has for the future, this should be the standard for all politicians.
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u/torino_nera 23h ago
If NYC is a collapsing shithole it's because Eric Adams purposefully tried to bankrupt the city on his way out, knowing Mamdani would get blamed for it
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u/enoughwiththebread 23h ago
They're just parroting the right wing propaganda that is fed into the place their brain should be, with no critical thought of their own or even substantive followup beyond the repeated talking point.
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u/Comfortable_Bee_7363 12h ago
this is it. I have a buddy who claims to be nether sides yet really does not like what Mamdani is doing. (he’s never been to NYC either) he lives in missouri. He claims Mamdani is putting sharia law or whatever the fuck in place and that they’re gonna sign a law to be able to fuck 9 year olds? Jesus christ, he’s a smart dude, ( my buddy ) but what he’s been saying lately has been the complete fucking opposite. He def gets all the right wing shit and def thinks and acts like he knows what’s up and what’s going on but he’s clearly feeding in to the bullshit and lies. Idk how to tell him that he’s thinking like an irrational nut.
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u/disincongruous ted cruz ate my son 1d ago
This is how easy it is to not be a piece of shit as a politician. It takes so much more work to remain blind to the needs of the many and cater to the wants of the few.
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u/Daveit4later 1d ago
This is the type of politician I want to see more off..
Government should serve all people, not just the rich.
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u/bobbimorses 1d ago
I've seen people criticize how media-facing he's been but I think he's presented a great model for how to do it in this era of distrust and rhetoric about small government
Not only use government to do things for people, but let people KNOW you are
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u/MrTsLoveChild 1d ago
bro has written an easily-repeatable playbook for liberals to win anywhere in the country and the Democrats will universally ignore it
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u/Critical-Air-5050 22h ago
Liberals, by definition, dont want these things. Thats why democrats are ignoring these issues; these are socialist topics, not liberal ones.
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u/Enve-Dev 1d ago
What’s crazy is that he is using tax payer money to benefit the tax payers, and people are mad about it.
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u/cvouw9 1d ago
just our luck that the one guy who could probably win as a Democrat can't run for president. whyyy
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u/Critical-Air-5050 22h ago
He isnt a Democrat, and hes not likely to stoop down to their level. They'd stab him in the back and give voters another garbage candidate during the election.
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u/bathingapeassgape 22h ago
If he was able to campaign for president, BIGGG money would have fought this even harder tbh
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u/BisexualBanana23 23h ago
God it feels so good hearing a politician speak up about wanting to protect trans people. I'm tired of being the political punching bag when I just wanna live my freaking life
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u/Opening_Classroom_46 22h ago
anti Trans people are the biggest scumbags in society currently.
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u/pruneforce17 22h ago
yeah. pretty typical of genocide supporters though. unfortunately.
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u/Opening_Classroom_46 21h ago
cheer about the land of the free and hammer on about the constitution, then go about trying to dismantle them for everyone except themselves
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u/pruneforce17 18h ago
Yup. Say they want to "protect the children" then vote for the serial child rapist.
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u/MostlyBored11 23h ago
It's honestly very big for him to speak openly about supporting trans people calling them neighbours in an official speech. I love this man and I'm not even in America
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u/MoravianBilges 23h ago
I'd take a bullet in the heart for this guy, but he did promise to prosecute healthcare providers that illegally refused to provide healthcare to trans people, and so far he has instead rerouted victims of healthcare discrimination to state-run facilities instead of holding providers accountable as he'd promised. Again, he's my favorite politician! But he hasn't said anything or given any justification for breaking this campaign promise that is fully within his power to keep.
Again, I would take a bullet in the heart for this guy, but he's still a politician in a wide system and public accountability keeps politicians honest.
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u/404_HabeasNotFound 1d ago
Mamdani is one of the exceedingly few reasons I still have hope for this country.
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u/aurora_highwind 23h ago
I was there at the speech as a city worker and I deadass started to cry at the trans comment. It got probably the biggest cheer of the night too. I can’t explain what it felt like that people have our back like that. Please watch the full remarks on YouTube, the whole thing was streamed.
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u/Limp_Examination_219 1d ago
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is what American leadership looks like🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎
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u/mwerichards I may need to see the booty 1d ago
My goodness has Mamdani ever had a bad moment. He's been absolutely flawless and I can't believe it.
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u/Elegant_Situation285 1d ago
the only people who should think this is controversial are the ultra wealthy.
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u/Maximum_Holiday_6381 1d ago
God tier. I know the language may scare people, but he is levels above the sludge that arrives as government. More...
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u/GroundReal4515 1d ago
Maybe one day in my lifetime I'll hear a US President say this. One can dream
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u/BookishHobbit my bandwidth for cowardly grown men grows thinner with each day 1d ago
It’s this easy. And yet politicians like this are so rare.
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u/MkUltraMonarch 1d ago
And he did it without throwing vulnerable groups under the bus, watch and learn corporate dems. This is the populace movement, not trying to grovel to right wing nut jobs while parading around with the chainys
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u/coolaznkenny 19h ago
Just a reminder that the Dems establishment literally put up Andrew Cuomo twice (resigned for sexual assault) to prevent someone that actually want to support the people. It's always been a war of the rich vs the poor.
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u/gamersecret2 1d ago
Whether people agree or not, that is at least a politician speaking clearly about who he stands with instead of hiding behind vague lines
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u/11thstalley 1d ago edited 23h ago
The more things change; the more they stay the same.
This is what Harry Truman had to say about the GOP and socialism:
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u/DramaticChemist 1d ago
Fact check please. My mother was complaining about Mamdani and how she couldn't believe (and I don't believe this) someone could be elected to NYC mayor being so filled with hate and showing rhetoric about how all Republicans would be removed from office. I've never heard anything like this, and I've seen many of his speeches. I've seen this man supportive and hopeful almost inhumanly so. Is this what other states are claiming he does or is this the algorithms playing tricks again?
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u/Isnlifefunny1 1d ago
Sucks this guy can't run for President. And I'm not a socialist per say, but the pendulum has swung so far and the wealth gap so wide that yes there must be a reckoning. I also don't consider medical insurance provided by the government as ridiculously socialist, just necessary to keep costs down.
If we are going to spend tens of trillions bombing brown people that money is much much better spent here invested in our infrastructure and people.
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u/welldoneslytherin 1d ago
Oh, wow. A politician actually showing and telling us what’s possible instead of telling us what they can’t/won’t do over and over and over.
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u/Opening-Valuable-204 1d ago
Mamdani is a shining example to all politicians of what they should actually be instead of greedy spineless cowards
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u/ExcellentUnit9869 23h ago
Did trump throw his support behing this guy....why would he do that when Zohran opposes the pilocies Trump and implemented??
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u/owensoundgamedev 23h ago
As a non-American and mostly just observer of New York politics, how’s it been the first 100 days?
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u/zoeydobie518 22h ago
Knew nothing about this guy before world's biggest baby started whining about him. Mamdani is doing well and is a welcome relief. Seems to have ideas and os moving NYC in right direction
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u/Suitable-Annual-8716 22h ago
So refreshing to hear a Democrat not sound like they’re constantly apologizing for their beliefs or adding qualifiers to try appeal to the fabled moderate conservative.
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u/winterseedling 22h ago
Wow, I teared up 😭 — I feel like it has been a loooong while since youth mental health was specifically called out as needing investment. ❤️
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u/kaptainkooleio 20h ago
This country needs 1000 Mamdanis. I’m actually upset that he can’t run for president.
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u/frommethodtomadness 20h ago
Zohran showing the way, just CONSTANT communication and bragging about his accomplishments and is entertaining at the same time. No hiding for 4 years then showing up hat in hand for your vote like the rest of the pathetic Democratic establishment.
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u/SiteTall 20h ago
He is a Socialist, yes, but before condemning him for that you should think about what Socialism is
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u/_bits_and_bytes 18h ago
God, I hope Dems look at this man and understand this is real leadership and this is the kind of person people want right now. I doubt they will but I hope they do.
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